Braco's Banking House, 7 High Street, Elgin

Dated 1694. 3 storeys, symmetrical 3 bays. Harled,

ashlar margins and dressings. Arcaded ground floor; 3

round-headed arches on squat pillars with square,

cushion type capitals with primitive Ionic details; roll

moulding to arcade and to window margins; 12-pane

sashes. Windows in outer bays at 2nd floor raised through

eaves, each with scroll decorated stone pediment,

that to right (W) dated 1694 and initialled I D, to left (E)

with star (of Innes) and initialled M I. Crowsteps, initials

and date repeated on skewputts.

Gable end stacks with deep roll moulded chimneyheads;

Graded stone slab roof; stone ridge.

2-storey, single bay wing to rear with entrance at

re-entrant angle; wall line irregular in pend and roof

carried on 3 heavy corbel stones; single swept dormer

to W.